Title: error with user.php when installing
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# error with user.php when installing

 *  Resolved [pw310](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pw310/)
 * (@pw310)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-userphp-when-installing/)
 * I am trying to install wordpress to my database. I have checked all of the database
   details and found that they are correct.
 * When I go to my domain.com/wp-admin/install.php I get this message appear in 
   the browser:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘.’ in \\NAS37ENT\domains\l\londonsveryown.
   com\user\htdocs\wp-includes\user.php on line 492
 * Can anybody help me find out how to solve this problem, I am quite new to this
   so appolagies if I have not provided the correct information.
 * Thanks in advance for your help!

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-userphp-when-installing/#post-1185295)
 * That’s kind of odd. Is this a clean install? Freshly unzipped files, never edited?
   Never used?
 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-userphp-when-installing/#post-1185296)
 * Thats my thoughts exactlly.
 * [@pw310](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pw310/) – please paste what line
   492 shows in your user.php file.
    I don’t see the syntax ‘.’ in my files or the
   one’s in the original downloads of wordpress.
 *  Thread Starter [pw310](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pw310/)
 * (@pw310)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-userphp-when-installing/#post-1185375)
 * Yeah it is all freshly unzipped, haven’t done anything to it.
 * line 492 looks like this:
 * ‘show_option_all’../wordpress/wp-includes/ => ”, ‘show_option_none’../wordpress/
   wp-includes/ => ”,
 * Is there a syntax error in here?
 *  Thread Starter [pw310](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pw310/)
 * (@pw310)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-userphp-when-installing/#post-1185379)
 * I have managed to get it working now, I just unzipped all of the files again 
   from fresh and it works!
 * Thanks for your help guys!

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 * [syntax error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntax-error/)
 * [user.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user-php/)

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 * Last reply from: [pw310](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pw310/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-userphp-when-installing/#post-1185379)
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